At this point, it feels like some AAA titles are more interactive movies than video games. Don’t get me wrong, that scene between Valeria and Alejandro is tense, well scripted, and the graphics are incredible. I would watch this movie, even though I’m not usually a huge fan of the genre. I’m not sure I want to play…

I am from the oldest year of Millennials, and I think Gen Z will be just fine. There is literally writing from Ancient Greece lamenting that the next generation are lazy and entitled, but yet every subsequent generation manages to figure it out well enough to become the ones bitching about the youths. I personally am…

I think Breath of the Wild is the Ghibli version of Zelda. It was a genius decision to go that direction with the art, since it’s beautiful and can run on the limited hardware of the Switch.

As far as I know no one broke their back in the DashCon ball pit. This will probably be more infamous in a few years.

Yes, and I am still being a very patient girl. But come on, its been over half a decade and I have a mighty need.

Noclip made a fantastic documentary about the making of Prey, and they talk about the way the decision was handed down by Bethesda. Basically, Bethesda gave Arkane full creative control over the game and the only thing they would not budge on was the name. So they did it. It’s a pretty great documentary, and I thought…

Do you still know any of them? Can you smack them around a bit and tell them to get back to Deus Ex? And yeah, that sounds like a terrible Thief game. The 2014 Thief remake was even disliked by many fans because it strayed too far from the original, I can only imagine the outrage if something like that had the Thief…

Are you serious? I got about two hours into it, and as adorable and amazing as that first hour or so was I haven’t felt the need to pick it up. All I cared about as far as the ending was seeing your cat get reunited with his family. I honestly have no emotions about the robot residents or B-12. And I won’t even get…

I was a fairly well known modder of the sims for many years from TS2-TS4 days, and this controversy is old and has been savagely fought over within the community for literal decades. When TS2 was fairly new, EA had language that allowed modders to charge real money for mods to offset the still-fairly-expensive…

There are dedicated teams of modders who have been working to do that within Skyrim for years. Of course, by the time they are finished TES VI will probably be out and they’ll have to start over. If you’re curious, google Skywind and Skyblivion.

Most people have a down payment of about 20-25%, or at least that’s the recommended amount. Considering how crazy expensive housing in the US is, that takes literal years to save up. Also, the people in those shows are always fairly well-off, but the average home-buyer is not. So if, for example, you managed to find a…

OK so I am one of those people who fall for this shit. Not because I don’t know better or because I am being preyed on, but because if a game is both really good and super cheap/free, and if they have a cash shop with cosmetics or whatever, I’ll bite. I feel like spending a little money in a quality game encourages…

I completely forgot about this! It looked cool then, it looks amazing now. We don’t get a lot of sci-fi horror games, and this one looks like it has a great creepy aesthetic. It must have been heartbreaking for the devs to realize that five years of work had to be thrown away and started all over again. I can’t be mad…

The last place I worked had us working 7 days a week, 10-12 hour days when I started. It was an emergency, they said. It will be very short term. I worked three months straight before they allowed me a single day off, a wedding, and my bosses gave me shit for missing work. Eventually they scaled back to 10 hour days…

I don’t know anything about the ethnicity or race of this person, but I work as a coach and advocate of disabled people. In this case, this man’s disability is a huge deal. This man could easily die in prison if he doesn’t receive adequate care, which he has not been given. Losing that amount of weight that quickly,…

I think the key difference with the trading cards on Steam is that they don’t promise you anything other than maybe a fancy badge to slap on your profile; which is arguably a better value than owning a NFT horse in a game that will likely shut down from lack of interest. I think that’s a tiny bit more honest. Also,…

I feel like this is the correct and reasonable response. You bought the game and enjoyed it, as I did with the Biishock franchise. It's silly for me to feel miffed, because it's not that I regret buying any of them and I'm glad that I got hours of enjoyment from them. But they are both good and free right now, and I…

It’s totally irrational, but sometimes when Epic has a really great game or games for free and I already own them I get kind of mad. Even if they are games that I’ve played and enjoyed already, like Prey and Bioshock. I have no idea why, but nevertheless. Irked.

“For [cyberpunk] to be effective, I find that it needs to draw on something about now because I don’t think that Gibson and [Bruce] Sterling were writing about the future. I think they were writing about the moment they were in,” Martin said. “We should continue to make cyberpunk work about the moment we’re in, not…

It worked just about flawlessly on my system too, which was decent quality at time of release. There were bugs, but super minor ones. Now, my PC has been upgraded a bit with an actual RTX video card and a Ryzen 9 5900 and ironically I am getting way more bugs now that they’ve released all the patch fixes. Stupid…